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Modelling metaphysics : the metaphysics of a model /
This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt ; New Brunswick [N.J.] :
Ontos,
2010.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Preface and introduction; 2 The basic description of Model T; 2.1 Mathematical representation; 3 Ontological categories for T; 3.1 Basic universals; 3.2 Individuals which are basic or immediately derivative; 3.2.1 Spatial configurations; 3.2.1.1 Spatial parthood for spatial configurations; 3.2.2 Temporal configurations; 3.2.2.1 Direction and relative position for temporal configurations; 3.3 States of affairs; 3.3.1 Time-dependent but not time-thematic states of affairs; 3.3.1.1 Additional perspectives on not time-dependent, but time-thematic states of affairs.
- 3.3.2 Time-dependent and time-thematic states of affairs
- and the nature of indexical time-thematicness3.4 Events as sequences of momentary states; 3.4.1 Events and states of affairs; 3.5 Basic tropes; 3.5.1 Basic spatiotemporal tropes as fundamental or derivative entities; 3.6 Worlds and modal positions; 4 Uniformity and diversiformity of histories and of maximally composite momentary states; 4.1 Regularities of histories; 4.1.1 Regularities and laws (of nature); 4.2 Uniformity, regularities, laws, and actuality; 5 Actuality and other modalities for T.
- 5.1 Temporal and historical relativization of statements about T5.1.1 The varieties of historical relativization; 5.2 The plurality of actuality-predicates, basic and defined; 5.2.1 Actuality
- in two ways non-relativized; 5.2.2 Actualization** and what is behind it; 5.3 Possibility and necessity for T; 5.3.1 History-relative and/or time-relative necessity and possibility for T; 5.4 The immanent and transcendent perspective on modality and time; 6 The physics of H*; 6.1 The first two of the laws for T/the laws of H*
- 6.2 The Third Law for T and the supervenience of atomic higher continuants relative to H*6.3 Democriteanism and four-dimensionalism for H* and the transhistorical identity of atomic higher continuants; 6.3.1 Four-dimensionalist counterpartism; 6.3.2 Four-dimensionalism without counterpartism; 6.4 Final determinations on atomic material objects; 6.4.1 The strong essentiality of origin for atomic material objects; 6.5 Candidates for further laws for T, and more on the laws for T; 6.5.1 The Candidate Fifth Law for T; 6.5.2 The regulation of collision; 6.5.3 The Candidate Sixth Law for T.
- 6.6 The canon of the laws for T6.7 The initial state; 7 Five T-metaphysical issues and the metaphysics of Reality; 7.1 The completion of the rules of ACTUHIST; 7.2 Physicalism and dualism with regard to Model T; 7.3 T-immanent and T-transcendent causation; 7.4 Composite T-material objects; 7.4.1 Typical material objects in Reality and their T-analogues; 7.4.2 Objections to taking the sequential T-material* objects as the Tanalogues of the typical material objects; 7.4.3 The transtemporal and transhistorical identity of T-material* objects; 7.5 T-metaphysical teleology.